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Here we go again. Yet another person has defied seemingly insurmountable odds to win not one giant lottery jackpot, but two.
It was revealed this week that Christine Wilson of Attleboro in Massachusetts, who won a million dollar prize on a Massachusetts State Lottery instant ticket on Feb. 23, just won ANOTHER million dollars playing another instant ticket game.
No, that doesn’t make any sense.
Wilson’s first win came on a Lifetime Millions instant ticket, which had odds of 1 in 2,100,000 for her to win a million bucks.
Her second win was cashed in from a 100X Cash instant lottery ticket with odds of 1 in 1,612,800 to win a million dollars.
Both times, Wilson chose to take the lump sum payment of $650,000 (before taxes) versus $50,000 a year for 20 years.
According to Massachusetts Lottery officials, “When she won her first $1 million prize, Wilson said that she planned to use some of her winnings to buy an SUV, which she did. This time, she said she plans to put her winnings into savings.”
Why does this keep happening? The odds make it very clear that it should literally never be possible for the same person to win huge lottery jackpots.
And yet, here we are again.
Last December, a man won $10 million a little over a year after already winning $10 million playing the lottery.
Another woman won a million bucks playing the lottery, then 17 years after she won $25 million!
In June of last year, a woman in Florida won a million dollars playing a scratch-off ticket just two months are she won $1 million playing that exact same lottery game!
Then there is the man who won the lottery for the third time in a year using the exact same numbers, the Maryland family who recently won big lottery prizes five times in five years, and the mother in North Carolina that won a $500,000 lottery prize less than a month after her son won $518,744!
What is going on?